JOY-INEXPERIENCED

 Isolation can lead to not only loneliness, feeling worthless, lack of hope. When no positive words are spoken by those around you it can fester or make your thoughts worse. Have you ever experienced that?

This is a whole inner chamber of work that can only be filled by one. I am being serious. Going for a walk, meditation, work-out high helps a bit, but really it's keeping on track with what God says about life through His son Jesus. I speak from my inexperience that now I have learned to experience. Inner workings of your soul in the form of  time management. Time management can be hard for me. Maybe you can identify with this picture in my head...picture a ball of yarn, each strand wound around becomes a hard messy ball. It doesn't form anything. If you took the yarn apart and orderly began to make something it will make sense. Hmmm...am I confusing you?

But if each strand had part of this verse on it and we took them and put them together in order it will sense of what God says about life and time.

One strand....I meet Jesus at the cross, I look up and listen to the story of the cross and the reason it happened. Another strand...you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 

Significant to note the word SET! Next strand...set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

There is that word SET again. Set your heart, Set your mind. But how? 

Next strand...for you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. I'm hidden...concealed, kept secret. I'm His hidden secret. Picture you are hidden with Jesus and He is directing and giving order to this messy strand. 

The strands are starting to make something. The strands put in order have the words...LET HIM all over it. Let Him...fill you up...feed you...let Him speak to you...show you...guide you...let Him care for the world...let Him care for you...let Him love you. Will you just let Him? I think I will have to draw this and get back to you so it will make it clearer.

When I am hidden with Him I am a new creation, When He comes back I will appear with Him in glory. Hallelujah! Amen. 

Prayer: Lord I will let you! Help me to not take back control. Amen.

Joy journey continue...1 Chronicles 29 the word JOY appears two times. Rejoice appears twice. David is told by the Lord that His INEXPERIENCED SON, Solomon will be made the next King and he will build the temple for the Lord. Yikes. NOT King David! But Why? That is a messy ball of yarn. Yet David excepts the architectural plans for the temple. He presents it to Solomon, saying, "The Lord will not fail you. He will will present the courage, materials, money and people to get the temple done. He takes the messy ball of yarn (temple dream, ideas) and pulls out each strand (plan, detail) he gives it to the inexperienced  young man, Solomon (In 1 Chronicles 29:1 he calls Solomon inexperienced). King David explains this to the people and they REJOICED at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given freely and wholeheartedly to the Lord. David the king also REJOICED greatly! (CELEBRATE!) God fulfills the plans, materials, money, volunteers and David cries out, " I have seen with JOY HOW WILLINGLY YOUR PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE HAVE GIVEN TO YOU! Oh Lord, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Israel, keep this desire in the hearts of your people forever, and keep their hearts loyal to you. The people ate and drank with great JOY in the presence of the Lord that day.

The story of now and the story of David merge to tell us to LET HIM! Give him control. Can you do that? In fact He wants to unwind the string and make something beautiful.

Nothing is easy, but us inexperienced people have the ball of yarn and God will pull out each strand and make sense of the ball. He will bring it to something. He will help you to flourish. Really!